Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Le trop grand empressement qu'on a de s'acquitter d'une obligation est une espece d'ingratitude.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God tha…

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any pa…